Reuben B. Stotts was born in Elkhart County, Ind., May 23,1837,
and is one of the large family of children born to Uriah and
Mary (Brunson) Stotts.
When Reuben was about eleven years old, he was taken by his
father to Edger County, where he lived some four years, thence
to Monroe Township, Pulaski County, where he lived nine years,
after living in Franklin Township three years and in Indian
Creek Township one year, Reuben moved to this township and here
he has lived ever since. He was married October 31, 1861, to
Diana Brooke, who bore him five children, two boys and three
girls, named William,
Nellie, Sarah (deceased), Mary and Eliza, and died July 11,
1881. Mr. Stotts has chiefly engaged in mercantile business,
almost continually from 1858 to 1872, but has framed and worked
at milling. Since 1872, he has been in the driven-well business
at Monterey, and it is stated, upon good medical authority, that
to the free distribution of driven-wells, more that to any
other cause, is to be attributed the excellent health of the
community.